Z Books

I have long been a fan of Bronwen and Frans Stiene's methodical approach to factualizing Reiki's history with lots and lots of important facts, photos, and documents that have been lost in the retelling of Reiki for Westerners. By now, most people have heard the two versions of Usui Reiki. The books written by the Stiene's are so valuable in aiding the reader to understand the environment in which Reiki was truly developed.

These are authors who are passionate about their subject matter, and have created a wonderful pocket-sized book as a perfect resource to keep handy. If you love Reiki- BUY THIS BOOK.

A-Z of Reiki Pocketbook is an encyclopedia of everything Reiki. This handy little book contains everything from Advanced Reiki Training to Zui-Un. In between there are interesting mini-biographies on many of the key players in the founding, growth, and development of Reiki; information on the different methods and variations of healing; and clarification about the vocabulary, symbols, and mantras used in our practice.

When I ordered this book, I expected that it would serve as a nice little reference book. I assumed I'd flip though the pages and find some interesting facts. In this regard, I was not at all disappointed. This book is full of fascinating details. In fact, I started reading the first entry and sat down and read the whole book. I came away from the experience with a deeper understanding of my craft- not only the history, the lineages, and all of the different variations but also feeling like part of a community.

I would suggest A-Z of Reiki Pocketbook to anyone interested in studying Reiki. Those new to Reiki will find that the information contained in this book will clarify a lot of the misinformation that they may read from a variety of sources. Once they continue in their practice, these same individuals will use this book to deepen their understanding of the tradition that they reflect and how they can grow as a healer. Thereafter, the book will well used as a reference resource.

This is one of those books that is so useful when you know that you know something but can't "put your finger on it". It's different from most Reiki books in that it has Reiki related facts arranged in alphabetical order. It's a bit like a mini encyclopaedia.

It's a good tool for Reiki shares if you fancy having a quiz and need to get hold of some bite size facts to throw at your students.

It doesn't go into huge amounts of detail on any of the topics but that's not what it's here for. Easy to find information is where it's at and it does the job very well.

Rebecca Holton
Reiki Master/Teacher
Japanese Usui Reiki Ryoho

Another fine book from Frans and Bronwen Stiene.

This book is, as its title suggests, a lovely sized book ideal for slipping into pockets and handbags!

It is an A-Z of everything Reiki and cross referenced (using words typed in bold face) for ease. I like the fact that the information includes both traditional and non traditional Reiki related facts and information presented in an unbiased, well researched and concise way. The book is dotted with small but wonderful pictures, symbols and photographs which make the book a delight to look through.

This book could be useful in many situations, as a teacher of reiki it is ideal to have on hand for questions that you either do not know the answer to or those questions where sometimes you know the answer but it is just "sitting on the tip of your tongue!" Just open it up skip to the right word and there is your answer (a handy book for both Reiki evenings and courses alike).

As a person new to Reiki you can use the book to look up things as you try to find the path right for you and seek answers along the way. For those somewhere inbetween on the journey it can still answer many a question and I know that when I first opened it up I found lots of interesting fascinating facts that were new to me,it was interesting to read about 'Leiki' and the Japanese pronunciations of words for one but there is also lots of wonderful snippets to be read on the history of Reiki.

I can, and do, highly recommend this book to those interested in Reiki on any level and shall treasure this little book full of little treasures!

If you were ever interested in any silent film comedies, then you must have this book. Besides profiling the major comedians like Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Langdon, and Laurel and Hardy, this book has large articles on W.C. Fields, Raymond Griffith, Lupino Lane, Colleen Moore, Larry Semon, Mabel Normand and others. One "classic" film from each is discussed in detail. Just about every obscure comedian that ever appeared in their own series or as a supporting player. There are also sections on topics such as different types of comedy, European comedy, etc. There are also plenty of illustrations. This is one reference book that a silent comedy fan will always want to have near.

As in his previous books on Laurel & Hardy, The Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin, British author Glenn Mitchell has brought his unique insight and wonderful writing style to this encyclopedia on silent film comedy. This book will delightfully jog the memory of almost anyone who had ever enjoyed a silent fun fest. Everyone is here from legends such as Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd and Langdon...to the more obscure such as Lloyd Hamilton, John Bunny, and even the Ton of Fun! You too can have a ton of fun within the pages of this bit of must reading for any film comedy fan.

When you are a silent film comedy enthusiast, a book like this one is a must. There are very few reference books on silent film comedy, making this book essential for one's collection. Many books cover information about the stars, but very few cover the rich and varied history of the film studios famous or otherwise, another big plus for this book. Praise to Mr. Mitchell for his meticulous and massive research. The only improvements to this book would be a larger format and filmographies. And now Mr. Mitchell, when will your Keaton encyclopedia be coming out?

British film historian Glenn Mitchell has once again produced a most welcome paperback dealing with silent screen comedy. This time, Mr. Mitchell covers the entire spectre, from Jimmy Adams to Tammany Young, thus succeeding where others in recent years have utterly failed. There are plenty of places where to look up pertinent information on Keaton, Chaplin, Lloyd, etc.; even Charley Chase now has a biography on the market. But where can you read about the careers of Dee Lampton, the fat boy in "A Night in the Show," or George Ovey, of the long-ago "Cub Comedies"? Only in Mr. Mitchell's fine -- and thankfully! -- reasonably priced book. The "A-Z of Silent Film Comedy" is a must-have for any serious film scholar and highly recommended even for the casual fan.

one of the best books on the jfk assasination, ive read well over a dozen on the subject & this one was up near the top. Probably not the best written, the author makes a couple of minor mistakes including referring to the 1957 appalachin meeting of mafia bosses as the meeting in the appalachian mountains! however, does include some very important info about the people responsible for the jfk assasination- those same cia agents, cuban exiles & mafia bosses who were active in the plots to get rid of castro. read this along with craig roberts' Kill Zone & u will solve the mystery surrounding the jfk assasination. This book gets to the point of the actual people there in dallas that fateful day & craig roberts' Kill Zone shows the conspirators who actually ordered the assasination. Read them both if u want to know the truth about who killed kennedy.

I recently had a holiday in Cuba and found this book available in English everywhere. I found it very convincing as to who was behind the conspiracy. If you plan a holiday in Cuba pick up a copy there.

The same group that was trying to kill Castro did succeed in assassinating President Kennedy. They are: anti-Castro Cubans, CIA, mafia, and the Watergate burglers.

"ZR Rifle" appeared at about the time when Fonzi's "Last Investigation," Scott's "Deep Politics," and Prouty's "JFK" showed up in the bookstores. Since Ms. Furiati has been characterized as "sympathetic" to Castro's revolution, I approached it with caution, only because I needed to know if the book itself could be discredited as another strand of misinformation in an entire web of misinformation spun over the course of forty years.

What I find instead is another well-researched and objective attempt to explain more clearly the strands in the conspiracy web already suggested by the contemporary literature. As I began reading "ZR Rifle," I attempted to verify each fact presented in succession against what I know from other independent sources. I relaxed those efforts after fifty or sixty pages because the book is well-footnoted and the documentary support for its explanation is solid. The book, which can be read in one sitting, adds more detail and clarity to the speculations and background provided by the other authors of this last decade's research.

"ZR Rifle"s strongest point is its reliance on documents and testimony provided by General Fabian Escalante, a veteran official of the Cuban State Security Service -- Castro's intelligence agency. Imagine, if you will, a country in a state of seige, a country made a pawn in the dangerous game of Cold-War nuclear weapons strategies, and a country that began to suspect itself as the intended scapegoat of a conspiracy hatched on American soil to murder an American President. Escalante occupied a position at the center of Cuba's own investigation to discover the Truth about the Guns of Dallas. Such a perspective provides ponderous advantages, because, unlike the problem of the fox guarding the chicken-coup, Cuban intelligence was able to place its own agents among the Cuban-exile community with a primary objective of turning up new facts. And these new facts substantiate what we already know about the complicity of David Atlee Phillips and other non-mob actors within the CIA itself.

The book presents a new challenge for researchers of both the "serious" and armchair variety who want to unravel the complicated inconsistencies concerning the "Oswald in Mexico" story. Cuban documents -- specifically passport applications -- controvert the idea that Oswald was never in Mexico. The facts that document his presence there raise additional questions as to why the CIA propagated the photos of the beefy-looking Oswald imposter, and the meaning of last November's revelations about voice-print identification inconsistencies with the real Oswald. The one certainty that stands out, other than the Cuban evidence, is that all the paradoxes concerning Oswald in Mexico bear the trade-mark of David Atlee Phillips.

My own model of the assassination has the shape of an hour-glass, or two pyramids each facing the opposite direction and intersecting at their apex. As with any methodical murder investigation, the "bottom-up" approach represented by Furiati and Fonzi fills in the details of the actual operations and execution of the conspiracy. Prouty's book, "JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Assassination of . . ." represents a perspective from the other pyramid. The implications about the power-elite responsible for the Guns of Dallas are clear, but more evidence is needed. Americans in the year 2000 can easily vote on their suspicions alone. Those citizens of a more cerebral inclination can simply cut to the chase and formulate their own alternative replacements to the US Constitution. But to actually implement such a change requires massive public support that can only derive from a ponderous body of facts.

That is probably why Furiati was unable to publish her book in the United States. Again, there is a smoking gun in the hands of unidentified media influentials. One can only speculate that someone -- someone -- still worries about the sort of name-dropping that occurs on page 15 of Furiati's book. The fact that the ARRB Final Report was published in the same month that Congress voted to impeach Clinton, and that chapter 6 of that report contains thought-provoking comments about the individual mentioned by Furiati -- is no mean or insignificant coincidence.

I liked when they said they were going to see an alligator nest and it was pretty funny that they never got to see an alligator nest until the end. And also, when they found the robber looking for his wallet, I really liked that. It was also pretty cool that a good guy who's not part of Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose, found a clue. And the wallet that the good guy found was the bad guy's wallet. And it was good that he got caught. And I also liked when Dink spotted that guy on the table when they were going for lunch near by them and Josh saw him. And also, I thought he was a bad guy but it was pretty weird that he wasn't the bad guy. A different guy who was walking to that place, he was the bad guy.

iT IS SO GOOD. I HAVENEVER SEEN A BOOK LIKE IT BEFORE!

I found this story to be entertaining and enjoyable. I found myself anxious to find out what Ruth Rose, Dink, and Josh would find on their hike. Would they get to see a Zombie or a alligator? Would the village people leave after their cemetary graves were being robbed? I felt like I was with the children when they got up at midnight and followed the glow of a flash light. They were very brave when they watched someone or something come up out of the grave. I'm sure that any adventurous person would enjoy this mystery.

I would give this book ten stars because of how the author describes the people. What happens is the pack of kids named Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose visit a cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, called Old Forest Trail. They stayed in a hotel with Ruth Rose's Grandmother. Meanwhile, they see their friend, Jack. So, they go on a camping trip mainly to see alligator nests. Then, two graves in the cemetery get robbed! Jack goes to kneel on red clay. Then at night, the shining light of someone's flashlight awakens Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose. They go and explore. They see someone who is tall, bright haired, and is scraping red dirt off his pants. Dink suspects it could be Jack.

In the morning they see a trail of bare footprints; they follow this trail to meet a man named Byron. Byron was tall, bright haired, but most importantly, he has a shovel with red dirt! They immediately report to Ruth Rose's grandmother about the incident. So they go talk to Byron, he admitted he was taking his owl named Bill hunting. He found the thief's wallet. He pulled out the ID and showed it to them. Guess who the thief was! They called the NOPD and showed them the evidence.

Anyone who reads this book and others in the series should get an A in Reading for enjoying some of the most mysterious books in history.

I have a lot of other preschool curriculum books and have started a home preschool. when this came in the mail I scrapped all other plans because these ideas were SO good! It is way more interesting and fun than other ideas and it really does teach the kids something. I am adding a little more pre-reading activities but other than that I am using ALL of the ideas and looking to get her other book!

I've been teaching pre-school & up for 20 years. I've always enjoyed unit study type learning. I would spend hours hunting for activities for letter A, you know Apples, Alligators etc... Lots of work! I now am homeschooling my 5 children and I can't put that kind of time into hunting even though the internet is a wonderful resource it takes time. While looking for a better ready made program for my 5 and 6 year olds I stumbled across this book and it is fantastic! I love the topics, you get 2 or 3 per alphabet letter. I love the ready to copy games, crafts, and activities. Even the illustrations are adorable. Take X for example. X-ray fish is introduced, a short child friendly facts portion is first, suggested activities are visit a pet store, make your own x-ray goggle fish glasses for a pretend journey down the Amazon river searching for x-ray fish hidden around the classroom, suggested reading is "Fish Eyes" (this is a counting book), then a science experiment about salt water, then a large motor chase game called "X-ray fish on the loose", and last an art activity making an x-ray fish with shaved crayon and wax paper. The other topic for letter X is Xylem (do you know what part of a plant that is? We do!) Really this book is well worth the money!!!!

I have had a preschool in my home for the last 2 years. I follow this book from A-Z and all the kids love it!! I highly recommend it for moms who want those extra activites for their preschooler!!!

The Adventures Of Wonderbaby From A To Z board book by Oliver Chin provides preschoolers with an A-Z compendium of wonders pairing colorful and whimsical illustrations by Joe Chiodo with the hilarious tale of an energetic infant. Parents will find this a far more stimulating board book presentation than your usual alphabet title.

My three-year old son and my seven-month old daughter enjoy this book, on different levels. The pictures are adorable, and my son loves looking for the hidden ladybug on each page. My daughter thinks the book is very tasty. And on top of all that, they're learning their alphabet in a memorable, fun way. I've bought over ten copies to give away as gifts. "A" is for "awesome!"

This is definitely one of the best alphabet books I've run across. It has an engaging story that works on a lot of different levels, both for children and adults. My sons love the illustrations and I do too. The paintings are top notch and really capture the fun of being a kid as well as the playfulness and joy of how babies learn to do new things. I even learned a few new words myself! Plus the book is priced right to be a great baby-shower gift. WonderBaby is a terrific character and we hope to see more of him in the future!

This book is perfect for anyone who has bought an embroidery machine for the first time. The steps and descriptions in this book are clear an concise and extremely user friendly. This book is useful for any type of machine.

This is a must-have book for any sewer, quilter, or embroiderer. Every single page is packed with innovative ideas and techniques, each accompanied by a multitude of photos that thoroughly illustrate the processes. I've been a quilter for 15 years, and just started machine embroidering; there were quilting techniques I'd never seen before, and I'm a quilting instructor! They thought of everything and every technique in this book. After just a brief thumb-through of the book my head was spinning with ideas and inspiration! I have well over 400 books in my needlecrafts library, and I can tell already that this is going to be one of my most-referred-to volumes. It's worth 100 times what they're charging for it! I guarantee you'll love it!

I have been sewing for thirty-five years and have a library of books on embroidery, applique, sewing with fleece, etc. This is one of the best I have found. It covers everything from Applique to Zigzag with full color illustrations and excellent advice. I read it cover to cover and then bought a second copy to give to my sister (I wasn't about to part with mine!)

I highly recommend Allergy A to Z as an invaluable reference tool for anyone suspecting that they may have an allergy to a common or not so common product. The book is clearly laid out and contains a wealth of well researched information on common allergens. This book is also a valuable tool for health practioners from both traditional and complementary fields

Jane Thurnell-Read confirms information about allergies in a way that the lay person can really relate to, and know that they are not alone in their suspicions about the nature of their allergies and possible allergens! They may not be what you think they are!
Well researched with information about allergy testing, allergy cures and extensive lists of allergens!

Most people would like to have a better idea of whether or not they and their family members are suffering from allergies. But most people also don't want to read through thick books on the subject that are filled with medical jargon that they don't understand.

Allergy A to Z is a good solution for those people. The book opens with several excellent essays that briefly summarize key perspectives on allergies:

What Is Allergy?

Why Do People Become Allergic?

Allergy Equals Addiction

What Symptoms Can Be the Result of Allergies?

Allergy Signs in Children

Correlations

Detecting Allergies

Correcting Allergies

Those essays are then followed by a listing of allergens, in alphabetical order, which comprise the bulk of the book. I read all of those pages because it gave me many new perspectives on allergens to watch out for. Yes, I'm one of those people who has a lot of allergies. I thought the information was great, and I found several new chemicals to watch out for that I hadn't read about before.

I also heartily recommend appendix 4 which provides information for practitioners and students.

If you don't have a book to help you deal with allergies, this book would make a good choice for you.

My 2 year old son loves this book. We give this book as a birthday gift to all our friends' young children now. And each time we give it my son wants it back for himself !

every parent should give this to a child they love. early learning through innovative use of "surprise filled boxes" to illustrate the alphabet!

This is really a nice book. My son is only 2, and he loves tolook at the pictures behind every letter. I would definitelyrecommend this book as a present for a 2 or 3 year old.

There are two pages for each letter. Children can trace both capitol and lower-case letters, then practice making the shapes themselves. They identify the letters when jumbled with similar letters and complete alliterated sentences. It's fantastic for helping with letter formation, recognition and phonetic sounds.

My daughter is three. These worksheets have been a wonderful help to her and fun, too! She loves playing "school". The best part is the free copying!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

This is a very helpful workbook. In the beginning of the year, we do them in class. Once the kids get the hang of it, I send it home as H.W. for extra practice...good morning work, also. Many letter writing workbooks available on the market (and pages that come with reading and phonics series) have too many to trace or not enough. This one fits!! Good job, Scholastic!

my mom surprised me with this when she bought the alpha tales boxed set. i was blasting through the roof when i saw the workbook. it is fun because you get a lot of tracing practice for each letter and the stories match the alpha tales books. and you have fun activites too for each letter. my mom made copies so she could use them for my little brother too. the book said she could do that and now if i mess up she can just copy me another page to do. this book has more times of the letter on it to trace than my other writing book so it is more fun. you should get this book. i am now finished with what i want to say about this one. really - stop typing.